| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Ashby, Richard |
Sling, The |
1952 AUG |
ss |
has J. Marty Reed series in OWS 1950 NOV & 1952 APR; has 8 short stories in men's mags. Adam, Knight, & Pix betw. 1964 MAR-1970 SEP; associate editor of Vertex SF 1973-75 |
| Ashley, Mike |
Afterword to "At a Mayfair Luncheon" (by Algernon Blackwood) |
1986 SEP |
aw |
(1948- ) wn. for Michael Ashley; has nf book Algernon Blackwood: A Bio-Bibliography(1987); mentions history of this story, & mentions others - "The Doll," "The Trod," "The Wednesday Story," "The Castlebridge Cat," "Lock Your Door," & coll. Shocks(1935) |
| Asimov, Isaac |
Flies |
1953 JUN |
ss |
(1920-1992) born in Petrovichi, Russia, came to the U.S. in 1923; discovered sf through pulps sold in his father's candy store; 1st story pub. sf "Marooned Off Vesta" in AMZ 1939 MAR; Futurian; BS & PhD in Chemistry from Columbia Univ. in 1939 & 1948 |
| |
Fun They Had, The |
1954 FEB |
vi |
1st pub. in The Boys and Girls Page, 1 DEC 1951; associate professor of biochemistry at Boston Univ. School of Medicine 1949-1958, resigning to write full-time; pub. 1st story in his Robot series, "Strange Playfellow"(aka "Robbie") in SSS 1940 SEP |
| |
Foundation of S.F. Success, The |
1954 OCT |
pm |
'Three Laws of Robotics' 1st appeared in "Liar!"(Robot series) in ASF 1941 MAY; has novelette "Nightfall," in ASF 1941 SEP, by many polls the best all-time short sf story; novel version of story, Nightfall(1990 UK) written with Robert Silverberg |
| |
Singing Bell, The |
1955 JAN |
ss |
1st story in F&SF in Dr. Wendell Urth sf-detective series; early Robot stories(all but 1st one in ASF 1940-50) coll. in I, Robot(1950); Lije Bailey robot novels The Caves of Steel(GAL 1953 OCT-DEC; 1954), The Naked Sun(ASF 1956 OCT-DEC; 1957) |
| |
Talking Stone, The |
1955 OCT |
ss |
2nd story in F&SF in Urth series; has robot colls. The Rest of the Robots(1964), Eight Stories from the Rest of the Robots(1966); 1st novels Pebble in the Sky(1950), The Stars, Like Dust(1951), The Currents of Space(1952) related to Foundation series |
| |
Dreamworld |
1955 NOV |
vi |
has Foundation ser. novels(W-1965 HUG, Best All-Time Series), Foundation(ASF 1942-44; 1951 fixup), Foundation and Empire(ASF 1945; 1952 fixup), Second Foundation(ASF 1948-50; 1953 fixup), conceived by Asimov as fall of Roman Empire rewritten as sf |
| |
Dreaming Is a Private Thing |
1955 DEC |
ss |
1st pub. in SRL, 28 MAY 1955, & in F&SF in exp. form; because ASF editor Campbell refused to accept aliens superior to humans, Asimov wrote Foundation ser. w/o aliens; ser. takes background elements from "Black Friar of the Flame" in PLS 1942 SPR(Clute) |
| |
Message, The |
1956 FEB |
vi |
has novel The End of Eternity(1955), a complex tale of time travel & time paradoxes, considered by some to be his best work(Clute); colls. The Martian Way and Other Stories(1955), Earth Is Room Enough(1957), Nine Tomorrows: Tales of the Near Future(1959) |
| |
Dying Night, The |
1956 JUL |
nv |
3rd story in F&SF in Urth ser.; has coll. The Early Asimov(1972; N-1973 LOC); has Lucky Starr children's sf seq.(as by Paul French), David Starr: Space Ranger(1952), L.S. and the Pirates of the Asteroids(1953), L.S. and the Oceans of Venus(1954) |
| |
Brazen Locked Room, The (Gimmicks Three: I) |
1956 NOV |
ss |
part of a triptych, inspired by Cogswell's story, "Threesie"(#740) in F&SF 1956 JAN; other Lucky Starr juvenile novels, L.S. and the Big Sun of Mercury(1956), L.S. and the Moons of Jupiter(1957), & L.S. and the Rings of Saturn(1958) |
| |
By-Product of Science Fiction, The |
1957 APR |
ar |
1st pub. in Chemical and Engineering News, 1956 AUG, & revised for F&SF; attitude of Americans to science; with an addendum directed to sf readers; his science essay, #1266, also discusses this subject |
| |
Loint of Paw, A |
1957 AUG |
vi |
between 1958 & 1980, Asimov wrote little fiction(Clute), concentrating on his non-fiction writing, including the science essay series begun in F&SF 1958 NOV & lasting thru 1992 FEB(399 essays) with essay #400 completed by his wife Janet, in F&SF 1994 DEC |
| |
I Feel It in My Bones |
1957 DEC |
ar |
dangers of strontium-90 fallout |
| |
Insert Knob A in Hole B |
1957 DEC |
vi |
1st written & read on Boston TV, educational channel WGBH, as a challenge, on AUG 21, 1957; makes his mystery debut with novel The Death Dealers(1958; vt A Whiff of Death, 1968); has anth. The Hugo Winners(1962), Vol.II(1971), III(1977), IV(1985), V(1986) |
| |
I Just Make Them Up, See! |
1958 FEB |
pm |
has anth. Soviet Science Fiction(1962), More Soviet Science Fiction(1962), Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales(1963) w. Groff Conklin, Tomorrow's Children(1966), Where Do We Go from Here?(1971), Nebula Award Stories Eight(1973) |
| |
Up-to-Date Sorcerer, The |
1958 JUL |
ss |
has film novelization Fantastic Voyage(1966); colls. Through a Glass, Clearly(1967 UK), Asimov's Mysteries(1968; incl. some pub. in F&SF), Nightfall and Other Stories(1969), The Best of Isaac Asimov(1973); novel The Best New Thing(1971) |
| |
Science: Dust of Ages, The |
1958 NOV |
sces |
micrometeorites, Part 1; 1st of his science essays for F&SF; same subject matter as the following story, #1164; Part 2 in 1959 MAY(#1239); Asimov writes about how the F&SF science essays column began in I. Asimov: A Memoir(1994; W-1995 HUG, LOC) |
| |
Science: Catching Up With Newton |
1958 DEC |
sces |
escape velocities, gravitational attraction; scientist Willy Ley also has a long-running science column, "For Your Information," in GAL 1952 MAR-1969 NOV, a total of 154 essays, ending upon his death in 1969(see Pohl's comments, LOC 1996 APR, p.67) |
| |
Science: No More Ice Ages? |
1959 JAN |
sces |
ice ages, past and future; greenhouse effect, the causes of the ice ages; Asimov's 1st nf book was Biochemistry and Human Metabolism(1952; rev. 1954; rev. 1957) |
| |
Science: Love Those Numbers |
1959 FEB |
sces |
numbers; names of large numbers, their history, uses & eccentricities |
| |
Science: Nothing |
1959 MAR |
sces |
space; vacuum of space, interstellar dust; see addendum p.103 in F&SF 1968 AUG, where an astrophysicist deduces from x-ray intensities that there is 100X as much mass in intergalactic space as there is within galaxies, a conclusion Asimov made in 1959 MAR |
| |
Science: Life's Bottleneck |
1959 APR |
sces |
elements in living tissue, and the ocean; the importance of phosphorus |
| |
Unto the Fourth Generation |
1959 APR |
ss |
has pub. a large number of nf books incl. The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science(1960; rev. 1965), Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science & Technology(1964; rev. 1972, 1982); his science essay colls. are listed in the comments on his essays |
| |
Science: Of Capture and Escape |
1959 MAY |
sces |
escape & capture velocities, Part 2; Part 1 in 1st essay, #1163 in 1958 NOV; addendum: response to Dr. William Boyd's article(#1139) |
| |
Science: Planet of the Double Sun, The |
1959 JUN |
sces |
sun; what our heavens would be like, and the changes in human history - if our sun had a companion star, like Alpha Centauri's double star system |
| |
Science: Battle of the Eggheads |
1959 JUL |
sces |
intellectual bigotry, case in point, the Space War with the Soviet Union; see also his article, #919, F&SF 1957 APR, on the same subject |
| |
Science: Ultimate Split of the Second, The |
1959 AUG |
sces |
speed of light; using the speed of light in defining units of distance & time, including ultra-small units of time - see addendum p.94 in 1960 FEB, about "bloopers"; addendum, ultra-small metric units conversion table |
| |
Obituary |
1959 AUG |
ss |
has coll. Opus 100(1969), his one-hundreth book, containing excerpts from stories, novels, nf books & articles of his from 1940-68; Opus 200(1979), two-hundreth book, excerpts 1969-78; Opus 300(1984), three-hundreth book, excerpts 1979-83 |
| |
Science: Varieties of the Infinite |
1959 SEP |
sces |
numbers; transfinite numbers |
| |
Science: Height of Up, The |
1959 OCT |
sces |
temperatures; extremes of temperature, different temperature scales - see addendum p.95 in 1960 FEB, about "bloopers" |
| |
Science: C for Celeritas |
1959 NOV |
sces |
speed of light, & Einstein's equation e=mc˛ |
| |
Science: Thin Air |
1959 DEC |
sces |
atmosphere; history of discovery about the atmosphere, from discoveries of air pressure to those of the layers of the atmosphere |
| |
Science: Those Crazy Ideas |
1960 JAN |
sces |
creativity; had short story("Dreaming Is a Private Thing," #722, F&SF 1955 DEC) & poem("I Just Make Them Up, See!," #1063, F&SF 1958 FEB) on same subject - creativity & where it comes from, criterions of creativity |
| |
Science: Sight of Home, The |
1960 FEB |
sces |
stars, luminosity of stars; from how far away can we still see Sol, and other familiar stars |
| |
Science: Flickering Yardstick, The |
1960 MAR |
sces |
stars, Cepheid variables, and how they are used as cosmic yardsticks |
| |
Science: About Time |
1960 APR |
sces |
time; reform of time measurement - the metric year, month, day, etc |
| |
Science: Piece of Pi, A |
1960 MAY |
sces |
mathematical pi, Part 1; Part 2 in 1960 SEP(#1451) |
| |
Science: Bug-Eyed Vonster, The |
1960 JUN |
sces |
speed of light & particle acceleration, particle accelerators |
| |
Science: Beyond Pluto |
1960 JUL |
sces |
planets, tenth planet possibilities; Bode's Law, names for a tenth planet; see addenda, p.130, 1960 SEP(Soviets discovered another planetoid, not the tenth planet), and p.4, 1960 OCT(more names for a tenth planet) |
| |
Science: Catskills in the Sky |
1960 AUG |
sces |
planets, views from planetary surfaces |
| |
Science: Tools of the Trade |
1960 SEP |
sces |
mathematical pi, Part 2; calculating pi & the various ways mathematical equations elicit information from a circle; transcendental numbers; Part 1 in 1960 MAY(#1403); see addendum p.4 in 1960 NOV, two misstatements regarding algebraic numbers |
| |
Science: Stepping-Stones to the Stars |
1960 OCT |
sces |
comets, & using them to reach other stars |
| |
Science: Element of Perfection, The |
1960 NOV |
sces |
elements, helium and other inert elements |
| |
Science: Now Hear This! |
1960 DEC |
sces |
echo-location in dolphins and bats |
| |
Science: Here It Comes; There It Goes! |
1961 JAN |
sces |
continuous creation |
| |
Science: Order! Order! |
1961 FEB |
sces |
entropy |
| |
Science: Imaginary That Isn't, The |
1961 MAR |
sces |
numbers; imaginary numbers; see addendum p.130, 1960 MAY, concerning an error at the end of the article |
| |
Science: My Buily-In Doubter |
1961 APR |
sces |
popular beliefs in scientific history |
